Sorry for your loss...

Today, like many other days, I had a morning full of lectures at school. Today, unlike many other days, turned out to be a very different day in lecture. The following story is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent...

My teacher (we'll call him Dr. Dentist) walked in wearing windpants and a dress shirt. He soon explained his unorthodox appearance by lifting his pant leg to expose a large knee brace and a grizzly looking new scar completely bisecting his right knee cap. Dr. Dentist explained that he had torn a ligament in his knee and that because of the location of the tear, laproscopic surgery was not an option. Instead, they had to completely open his knee, leaving him in great pain, with a big scar, and unable to wear dress pants over his gigantic brace.

He then stepped behind the podium and began to lecture. Shortly after, most of us stopped listening because this lecture was in a subject that almost no person in the world would be interested in learning. Soon, however, we all snapped back to attention when we heard Dr. Dentist exclaim, "Oh! My pants fell down!"

True story--my teacher's pants fell all the way to the ground while he was lecturing today. I saw his underpants in class. It was very, very awkward. Then I started thinking about the poor man's future. For example, today he will go home and his wife will say, "How was class today, Dr. Dentist?" and he will respond, "Well, it was pretty good until my pants fell down." Or, when asked what his most embarrassing moment is, he will say, "One time I accidentally flashed 97 dental students during a lecture."

Dr. Dentist, being the incredible person that he is, continued to lecture for 40 more minutes (!) as the rest of us tried, unsuccessfully, to regain our composure. One of my fellow classmates actually had to leave the room because in his attempt to quiet his laughter, he actually started to choke.

Several people were talking about the incident after class and we decided that the man deserved a prize for having the confidence to finish the lecture. I suggested buying him suspenders and a card that reads "Sorry for your loss." We are planning on signing the card and telling him how much we respect the fact that he both laughed about his pants falling down, and continued to lecture to the class-turned-laughing-hyenas.